OK! It's identity and communities by a country mile (and in a tie).
Excited to talk about these topics with some great community builders and identity pioneers in the next season of #dotsocial
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What drew you to ActivityPub?
This question was asked by @mike@flipboard.social on Dot Social's latest episode about the blogosphere on Fedi.
@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz: "we wanted to connect Ghost blogs to each other, but then we discovered ActivityPub"
@pfefferle@mastodon.social: "we wanted to connect WordPress blogs to each other, and ActivityPub has been the most successful attempt"
[paraphrased for brevity]
Did you catch the subtext? Both those answers, and my own answer with NodeBB contain the same seed idea... that we originally wanted to connect our software with itself only. We went through years of building a company and vying for profitability that it never occurred to us to work towards cross compatibility with anyone besides out own software.
Then ActivityPub came along and quite literally expanded the potential for the entire endeavour a hundred-fold, because not only are you connecting your own software to each other, but every other ActivityPub enabled software in existence. Blogs, microblogs, forums, image boards, etc. all with a built-in user base ready from the get-go.
It's no wonder that after discovering AP, it becomes the protocol to utilise.
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Ghost’s @johnonolan and WordPress’s @pfefferle want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers,” who chatted to @mike for the latest edition of Dot Social.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/
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Planning out the next season for Dot Social. Who would you most love to hear from? Which topics do you really want us to go deep on?
In this latest episode of #dotsocial I have an inspiring conversation with @johnonolan and @pfefferle who are bringing the best ideas of the blogosphere to the open social web. You'll love their vision and plans for gathering people around great stories and storytellers in the fediverse.
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